one of the biggest textile factories of the 18th century once was located in the neighbourhood of basmane, in ızmir, turkey. this resulted in creating various textile related industries in the same area. today, they offer poor conditions to workers like sweatshops. the aim of the building program is to incorporate different disciplines of fashion into one building and to create one system for those different components. This new institution represents the inherent seamless relation between those highly interrelated disciplines with a continuous streamlined form.
dead ends, dense historical pattern which is subordinated by new constructions formed the idea of ‘deflected perspectives in basmane’ this term stems from new and old pattern juxtaposition. historical site was prone to many interventions over the years that has overshadowed exıstıng pattern. thıs created a place which does not belong to the past because of losing its intrinsic qualities and impairing its own locus of memory while failing to construct an identity for the future. the historical part of the site can only be read by an imaginative eye with the help of palimpsest of memories. ın this aspect, the new building serves as a mnemonic device by creating a program that celebrates basmane’s pioneering textile-fashion history and connects anafartalar street to agora with the ground plane as a public space, aims to present new channels of communication for the future.